Gadgetory

so you think you know everything there is to know about hard drives well at least I did I thought I did turns out there's been a ton of expansion in the hard drive world specifically in the types of applications that individual drives were made for in front of me I got some candy hard drive candy I got black blue red and purple they said hey Lou we want you to make a video explaining the different attributes of each of these drives and why they are perfect for specific applications on the far side I have the highest performance drive this is a six terabyte black WD black and the intended application here is inside of your system inside of your workstation PC gaming PC anywhere where you need high-performance storage they use the word creative professionals I consider myself a creative professional essentially anyone who is beating the hell out of their drive not physically but in a Productivity kind of way offloading a bunch of video let's say and then editing it fast and speedy behavior next up we've got blue this is one that I found kind of interesting I remember WD blue sort of being like the de facto standard internal hard drive for a very long time there's actually one over here that is exactly that there's a one terabyte right here which is a standard desktop hard drive there's a new WD blue as well with a built-in SSD it's kind of a hybrid and that's going to give you enhanced speed on regularly access stuff but it kind of fits a similar use case scenario to the WD black this again is intended for users that are a little bit less intense but it'll do the same tasks so blue just like the others comes in a variety of different sizes as well as form factors this is a four terabyte with that built in SSD functionality but you can also get it up to six terabytes I've got a one terabyte over there everyday computing that's what this one is all about now things get more interesting as we move on to read/write is designed for network-attached storage this is a WD my cloud ex4 it attaches to your network and allows for you to access data locally that's on the network share it with other people that's what we'll be using it for then through the cloud features you can also access that data when you're not local just via the web you want to drive that's sort of configured for 24/7 operation and when you get an enclosure like this the idea is to put multiple drives into these bays so that you can have a raid let's say for example you just want to have a simple raid one the way that works you'll have to drive just like these here so two Reds that match in capacity you'll have a constant backup of all of the data that you write to that raid a hardware backup so essentially that file lives in both places with each copy so these install really easily into a system like this simply slide it in click it down and that's about it okay so that's black blue red and now it's time for purple or as I like to refer to it the donatello drive it is intended for use in 24/7 surveillance systems that are constantly writing video files 24 hours a day that is a fairly hefty request for a drive to be operating like that and right on the front here you'll see it says 24/7 reliability intended for everything up to HD video now much like the Reds which also put an emphasis on reliability you're going to see an advantage in doubling up the purple so I've got another purple over here as well you still have that opportunity to create other styles grade like raid zero or pair up a ton of drives and do something like raid five which is going to enhance speed and redundancy together the world of raid so let's do it one more time real quick black performance gaining creative professionals in your system blue everyday tasks inside your system available SSD inside for a hybrid Drive and enhance performance read inside your knives Multimedia constant access to your files locally sharing or via the web and then purple it's all about surveillance if you want to stream video record video to a drive 24/7 its purple you're looking for anyway that wraps it up hopefully you guys found this information useful if you're looking for some more I will drop the relevant links down in the description so you can check out pricing and availability on all of these various models we actually don't have any network attached storage right now we're using like Google Drive to drop files and whatnot and obviously that's limited and not the fastest thing in the world so this is going to allow for us to you know send pictures back and forth video files music etc anyway I could go on and on as you can probably tell thank you very much for watching guys appreciate your viewership if you enjoyed this content make sure you leave a thumbs up down below and I'll catch you on the next episode later